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Requesting information about you from adoption agency/HSE

  • 30-04-2013 2:55pm
    #1
    Crann na Beatha
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  • #2
    trixy
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭trixy


    Hi Phoenix

    Adopted people are excluded from FOI Act


  • #3
    kathy finn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭kathy finn


    hi, if your files are with the HSE you can apply under freedom of information, any details about your birthmother will be blocked out. I applied and got my records under FOI, it is mainly information on your birth and weight and when you got your BCG etc.


  • #4
    Julie_S
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭Julie_S


    Phoenix wrote: »
    Has anyone tried to get their information held on file by going under the data protection and FOI acts respectively?
    I would be interested in obtaining my non identifying information first,then looking to get information on my birth parents etc
    anyone been through this or similar?

    Hi Phoenix,

    6 to 8 weeks ago I requested my background medical information. I rang the adoption authority of Ireland and they gave me a number for my local HSE adoption agency in Cork who would have my information. (not sure whereabouts you are from but I presume you would have a facility like this). Last Tuesday week I got a call from SW asking me to meet her on the Wednesday. I did and she had only minimal medical info - basically that my birth mother had low iron and pregnancy related conditions. I got my weight, descriptions of what my birth parents looked like and what their personalities and interests were, my name given to me at birth, her name and where I had been fostered to before I went to my parents. However, I also was told that she had died at a young age 10 years ago and that she also placed 3 other children after me for adoption and also that my birth father wasn't named.
    This came as a huge shock and I am still trying to deal with all of this. As I said I only requested my basic medical history and have been hit with all of this now.
    I suppose the reason I am writing this is to make you aware of the fact that making the request could lead to you finding out a lot more than what you were expecting to hear and just make sure that you are ready to deal with getting more info than you asked for cos I certainly wasn't


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